-[English] Johnson's letter to James Boswell
Poverty is the mother of pain.
-[British] Southey's "The Fantasy of Orleans Girls"
Poverty causes pain and mental depression.
-[Denmark] The Promised Land of Pontopedan
In a place shrouded in poverty, there is neither chastity nor crime, nor morality and wisdom.
-[France] Balzac's The Story of Donkey's Skin
Poverty and suffering are not inferior, and wealth and luxury are not necessarily superior.
-[France] Rousseau's reverie of the lonely traveler
Poverty is not enough to be ashamed, and shame is not forgetting poverty.
-[in] Lv Kun's famous saying of "Hum, cultivate one's morality".
Poverty will not kill a person's noble qualities, no, it is wealth that makes people lose their ambitions.
-[Italian] Boccaccio's decameron
What we praise is not poverty, but that poor people cannot make them grovel.
-[ancient Rome] Seneca's letters to Lucius
Poverty has no flattery, wealth has no arrogance.
-[in] the Analects of Confucius by Kong Qiu.
A gentleman worries about Tao but not poverty.
-[Middle] Kong Qiu's The Analects of Confucius and Wei Linggong.
It is an innate characteristic of a wise man to endure poverty with dignity.
-[Ancient Greece] Democritus's "Pieces of Works"